BOOK 5
(Psalms 107—150)
107
📚✭Oh, give thanks✭ to the LORD, for he is good,
for his mercy continues
on forever.
2 📚Let the redeemed✭ of the LORD
say✭ so,
whom he has redeemed
from the hand of the enemy,
3 📚✭And gathered out of the lands,
from the east,
and from the west, from the
north, and from the south.
4 📚✭They wandered in the wilderness
in a desolate path;
they found no city to dwell in.
5 📚Hungry and thirsty,
their soul fainted in them.
6 📚✭Then they cried out to the LORD
in their trouble,
and he delivered them
out of their distresses.
7 📚And he led them forth
by the right way,
that they might go to a city for
their dwelling place.
8 📚✭Oh, that men would
praise the LORD for
his goodness,
and for his wonderful
deeds to the children of men!
9 📚For he satisfies the longing soul,
and fills the hungry soul
with goodness.
10 📚✭Some sat in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
bound in affliction and irons,
11 📚✭Because they rebelled
against the words of God,
and despised the counsel
of the Most High.
12 📚Therefore he brought down
their heart with labour.
They fell down, and there was
no one to help.
13 📚Then they cried out to the LORD
in their trouble,
and he saved them out
of their distresses.
14 📚He brought them out of
darkness and the shadow
of death,
and broke their chains apart.
15 📚Oh, that men would
praise the LORD for
his goodness,
and for his wonderful
works to the children of men!
16 📚✭For he has broken the gates
of brass,
and cut through the bars of iron.
17 📚✭Fools, because of their
transgression,
and because of their wicked deeds,
are afflicted.
18 📚Their soul abhors all kinds
of food,
and they draw near to the gates
of death.
19 📚✭Then they cry out to the LORD
in their trouble,
and he saves them
out of their distresses.
20 📚He sent his word,
and healed them,
and delivered them
from what brought
them down.
21 📚Oh, that men would
praise the LORD for
his goodness,
and for his wonderful
deeds to the children of men!
22 📚And let them offer the sacrifices
of thanksgiving,
and declare his deeds with
rejoicing.
23 📚✭Those who go down
to the sea in ships,
who do business on great waters,
24 📚These see the deeds
of the LORD,
and his wonders in the deep.
25 📚✭For he gives a command
and raises the stormy wind,
which lifts up its waves.
26 📚They mount up into the sky;
they go down again to the
depths;
their soul melts because
of trouble.
27 📚✭They reel to and fro,
and stagger like a
drunken man,
and are at their wits’ end.
28 📚Then they cry out to the LORD
in their trouble,
and he brings them out
of their distresses.
29 📚He calms the storm,
so that its waves
become still.
30 📚Then they are glad,
because they are quiet.
So he brings them to their
desired haven.
31 📚Oh, that men would
praise the LORD for
his goodness,
and for his wonderful
deeds to the children of men!
32 📚Let them also exalt him
in the congregation
of the people,
and praise him in the assembly
of the elders.
33 📚✭He turns rivers into a desert,
and springs of water
into dry ground,
34 📚and a fruitful land
into barrenness,
because of the wickedness
of those who live in it.
35 📚He turns the desert into
pools of water,
and dry ground into springs
of water.
36 📚And he causes the hungry
to dwell there,
that they may prepare
a city for habitation,
37 📚And sow the fields,
and plant vineyards,
which yield fruitful harvests.
38 📚He blesses them also,
so that they greatly increase
in number;
and he does not let their cattle
decrease.
39 📚When they are diminished
and brought low through
oppression,
affliction, and sorrow,
40 📚✭He pours contempt on princes,
and causes them to wander
in the wilderness,
where there is no path.
41 📚Yet he sets the poor on high,
away from affliction, and makes
families for him
like a flock.
42 📚✭The righteous will see it
and rejoice,
and all wickedness will shut
its mouth.
43 📚✭Whoever is wise,
and will observe these
things,
they will understand the loving
kindness of the LORD.